Ribat-i Ab-i Ushturān

Ribat Ab-e Ushturan was a fortified stopping place on the desert route east of Saghand, between the country of Yazd and Tabas. Medieval geographical accounts placed it two stages from Saghand. The long road across the arid plateau made such stations valuable to travellers and their animals; beyond them lay the waterless expanses and salt deserts that separated the oases of central Iran from Khorasan.